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Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 8 reviews
Stella Gibbons
Penguin Classics, 2006
Rural Gothic
+ Cold Comfort Farm warms you in all the right places
+ Wonderful.
+ cold comfort farm
+ Remember those books you hated reading in Eng. Lit?
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Poems (Everyman's Library pocket poets)
John Keats
Everyman's Library, 1994
A collection of the lyric verse, narrative verse and letters of John Keats. This volume contains a selection of sonnets and other short poems, both versions of "Hyperion", extensive sections from "Endymion" and the complete texts of "Isabella", "Lamia" and "The Eve of St Agnes".
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) 406 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Penguin Classics, 2002
A wonderful piece of literature, however
+ One of the best novels ever
+ Sin, Redemption
+ Hawthorne's Masterpiece
+ Useful for AP Lit
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 50 reviews
Emily Dickinson
Back Bay Books, 1976
Great collection of poetry!
+ True Dickinson fans....
+ One of the best poetry collections around
+ Your thoughts don't have words every day...
+ Emily's Full Collection
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The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)7 reviews
Alexander Pushkin
Everyman's Library, 1999
Thrilling Tales of Adventure and Romance!
+ Beautiful Book, New Cond.
+ Fun Throughout
+ suggested russian reading
+ Russian Literature, Russian Love
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)51 reviews
Emily Brontė, Pauline Nestor
Penguin Classics, 2002
This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
+ Interesting Relationships
+ A great read.
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?)
Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it.
I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family!
Like ...
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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)21 reviews
Gustave Flaubert
Penguin Classics, 2002
A Compelling, Complex, Classic
+ A book for these times
+ A classic that left me cold
+ Madame Bovary: Classic Novel of a Cinderella Dreamer whose Prince Never Arrived
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Vile Bodies25 reviews
Evelyn Waugh
Back Bay Books, 1999
Scintillating sarcasm
+ "Faster, faster!"
+ Funny And Sad
+ To Be "Vile" Is To Go Through Life Without Passion
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The Waves33 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1950
Pam "Book Club Sin Nombre"
+ Woolf's response to Plato
+ A glorious book
Our book club in Cancun read it for April. We can be a critical group, but this one received nothing but praise from those of us who actually FINISHED it. Through the night the message was "It's well worth it! Stick with it!" It is confusing at the beginning for those of us who've been reading ...
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Tennyson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)3 reviews
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Everyman's Library, 2004
A collection of Tennyson's best
+ Excellent and Portable Collection
+ " Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead "
This is one of the best collections of Tennyson's poems I have ever read. Tennyson's wonderful poems are artfully compiled into this book. I would recommend it to anyone who loves Tennyson's poetry or just wants to see what its all about.
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Ulysses 395 reviews
James Joyce
Vintage, 1990
Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses
+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers
1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed.
2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
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The Essential Kierkegaard5 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard
Princeton University Press, 2000
The Master of Irony
+ May the laughter by on your side
+ haven't read this particular edition of Kierkegard
+ Excellent Anthology
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The Trial40 reviews
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1999
Was it really an unfinished business????
+ One of the most important writers of the 20th century
+ What a wonderful nightmare!
+ great thinker, creative writer
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Long Day's Journey into Night65 reviews
Eugene O'Neill
Yale University Press, 2002
As Good As It Gets
+ Great play, not for light reading
+ Living death in the middle class
+ NO EXIT
+ The Great American Drama of the 20th Century
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)10 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Books, 2003
!!!ZESTICA!!!
+ Anna Karenina
+ Sense of Self
+ The Greatest Novel of all Time
+ A pleasure to read
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Persuasion (Penguin Classics)26 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Classics, 2003
Follow your heart (while you're still pretty)
+ I am a Jane Austen addict
+ Delightful character analysis
+ Another Enjoyable Austen
+ For Austen Lovers
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A Passage to India (Everyman's Library (Cloth))99 reviews
E. M. Forster
Everyman's Library, 1992
East and West Can Never Meet
+ There is beauty here.
Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies ...
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Hadji Murad (Modern Library Classics)21 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Modern Library, 2003
One of the greatest novellas ever written
Certainly, the life and death of Hadji Murad left trenchant impression on young Tolstoy. So much so that Tolstoy wrote this novella few years before he died, and obviously did not intend to publish it. However fortunately it was published against his wish and it turned out to be the one of the ...
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)326 reviews
Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 2002
Classic for a reason
+ Very Deep
+ a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering...
+ Get back to the Pequad please!
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Books, 2002
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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